Store clerk tricked with fake coins
Arizona Coin Collector
The link below has a news video as well.
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FROM:
http://www.wmctv.com/global/story.asp?s=11396143
Store clerk tricked with fake coins
Posted: Oct 27, 2009 7:35 PM MST
Updated: Oct 27, 2009 7:35 PM MST
By Jamel Major
MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) - Bill Dismukes has been
collecting coins for more than 50 years.
"I started with my father," he said in an
interview Tuesday. "We collected coins. We
had a wonderful time."
Dismukes says what happened at Mid-South Coin
Company on Park Avenue last Friday is no
surprise to him.
"Nothing surprises me," he said. "People can
do anything."
According to police, a suspect entered the store
and presented at least two dozen foreign coins
to the clerk inside. Officials don't know how
much the coins are worth; however, the suspect
got away with a substantial amount of money.
"Yeah...it's a big problem especially with
high price coins," Dismukes said.
Authorities say the man presented the coins to
the clerk in exchange for payment. But when the
clerk turned his head, the suspect swapped the
real coins out with fake ones. The suspect was
then paid for the bogus coins.
According to Dismukes, fake coins are very
difficult to produce.
"It would not be easy. First, you'd have to get
a blank of some type and buy them, or you'd have
to manufacture one. Then you'd have to have a
way to reproduce the image on it," he said.
Meanwhile, Dismukes has some advice for anyone
in the coin business who wants to keep from
being swindled.
"Just be careful and look at every coin and
examine it and know your coins," he said.
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The Giant Brain
More likely the clerk didn't realize till after the fact that the coins were
fake and concocted that cock & bull story so he wouldn't look like an idiot!
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BBQ n BLUES
The owner Harry will rip anyone who walks in the door if you let him.